Improvement in match-boxes



A. MEYERSBERG.

Match-Boxes.

Patented August 5, 1873.

UNITEEI STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH MEYERSBERG, 0F NEW YORK CITY, AssIGNoR T0 E. B. EINOH a soN, 0E PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

MPROVEM ENT IN MATCH-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,581, dated August 5, 187.3; application filed J une 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADoLPH MEYERSBERG, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a Combined Lamp Bracket Back and Match-Safe, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists in a novel arrangement on the same bracket-back of sockets for lamp-brackets and a match-safe, whereby matches are always kept in proximity to the lamps just where they are wanted, and the inconvenience of running about to obtain them whenever needed is obviated.

The drawing represents a perspective View of the lamp-bracket back and match-safe.

A indicates the bracket-back, which is secured to a wall or other support by screws or nails passing through holes provided for that purpose. On its upper part are two sockets, B B, which arc designed to receive swingingbrackets for holding lamps. There may be only one of these sockets, or there may be three or four, according to the number of lamps it is desirable to use. Under these sockets there is situated a match-box or safe, C,

which extends nearly the entire width of the bracket-back. It may be made plain, as represented, or may be ornamented to improve the appearance of the device. It will always be arranged suflciently below the bracketsockets to afford room for reaching the matches. That part of the bracket-back between the sockets and the match-safe is serrated or roughened to provide convenience for igniting the matches.

This device is of great convenience, as it always affords a supply of matches where they are needed, and therefore obviates the necessity of running round the house in search of matches' wherewith to light the lamps.

What I claim as my invention is- The arrangement, in relation to each other, substantially as described on the same bracket-back, of the lamp-bracket socket or sockets B B, and the match-safe C.

ADOLPH MEYERSBERG.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. BROWN, MICHAEL RYAN. 

